A comparison of e-book readers (features)

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1 A comparison of e-book readers (features) Maker/ Vendor Model Screen size Touch screen Color Operating system Web browser Wi-Fi Other apps Speech features Sync. Highlight** Kindle Touch*, but Kindle Touch 3G*, but & Kindle Keyboard*, but Reads aloud menu options, content listings and item descriptions across Kindle Keyboard. Turn on Voice Guide in the Settings menu. Kindle Keyboard 3G*, but & Reads aloud menu options, content listings and item descriptions across Kindle Keyboard. Turn on Voice Guide in the Settings menu. Kindle DX* 9.7 ; silk & Apple ipad Apple ipad color Apple ios, Safari Safari, ibooks, itunes VoiceOver screen reader color, Safari Safari, ibooks, itunes VoiceOver screen reader t built-in, but app can be purchased t built-in, but app can be purchased

Turn on Voice Guide in the Settings menu. Kindle Keyboard 3G*, but & Reads aloud menu options, content listings and item descriptions across Kindle Keyboard.

2 Barnes & ble NOOK Tablet 7 color Android 2.3, Maxthon, free in stores NOOK Kids picture books, Read and Play interactive books, Read to Me to record own voice reading books; music, videos, games, , many others; NOOK apps for ipad, iphone, MAC, PC, Android text-to-speech feature built-in; reads recorded books or selfrecorded reading only Ectaco jetbook Color 9.7, stylus color apps for translating to Windows and other OS, limited to ebook reading on open networks, and 3G Speech recognition and speech analysis based phonetic Language Teacher; optional C-Pen handheld scanner fort scanning printed text; includes books from 50 States Reading Lists, over 1,000 books from free sources) Y, Text-to-speech features Humanware Classmate Reader 2 x 3 landscap e & stylus, buttons color N Voice recording; TTS voice, extract voice notes and text notes onto a PC; USB 2.0 port to connect to external thumb drives (USB drives) or to PC Onyx International Boox 60 Linux, secure connection, and 3G Pocketbook Pro Linux 1000 free books; Additionally, more than 30,000 free, public domain books available for download at Sony PRS-T1 and others Windows OS t built-in; Requires downloading Android apps.

iphone, MAC, PC, Android text-to-speech feature built-in; reads recorded books or selfrecorded reading only Ectaco jetbook Color 9.

3 A comparison of e-book readers (specifications) Maker/ Vendor Model Storage space Display pixels Display depth File types Battery life Weight Price Kindle Touch* 4 GB 600 x scale AZW, AZW3, TXT, PDF, AA, AAX, MP3, MOBI, PRC, HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP converted, all non-drm protected 7.5 oz. $99-$139 Kindle Touch 3G* 4 GB & Kindle keyboard* 4 GB & Kindle Keyboard 3G* 4 GB & 600 x scale Same as above 600 x scale Same as above 600 x scale Same as above 7.8 oz. $149-$ oz. $ oz. $139 Kindle DX* 1200 x scale Same as above 2-3 wks oz. $379 Apple ipad 2 16 GB & cloud; no expansion 1024 x 768 epub books from ibooks, epub books without DRM, PDF, Kindle, JPG, TIFF, GIF (images); DOC and DOCX (MS Word); HTM and HTML (web pages); KEY (Keynote); Pages; PDF (Preview and Adobe Acrobat);.PPT and PPTX (MS PPoint); TXT (text); RTF (rich text format); VCF (contact information); XLS and XLSX (MS Excel) 9-10 hrs lbs. $399 Apple ipad 3 16, 32, 64 GB 2048 x 1536 Same as above 9-10 hrs lbs. $499 - $699 Barnes & ble NOOK Tablet 8 & 16 GB expandable to 32GB with card 1024 x 600 PDF, epub (n or Adobe DRM), DRP, epib, TXT, RTF, XLS, DOC, PPT, PPS, DOCM, XLSM, PPTM, PPSX, PPSM, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, CBZ, MP4, MP3, AAC Varies, hrs. 400 g $199

$99-$139 Kindle Touch 3G* 4 GB & Kindle keyboard* 4 GB & Kindle Keyboard 3G* 4 GB & 600 x 800 16 scale Same as above 600 x 800 16 scale Same as above 600 x 800 16 scale Same as above 7.8 oz.

4 Ectaco jetbook Color (improved) 4 GB internal, SD card up to 32GB 1600 x 1200 Textbooks, TXT, PDF, FB2, epub, MOBI, PRC, RTF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, Adobe DRM 9.1, BMP, MP3 Varies 23.4 oz $500 ($379 educ. discount) Humanware Classmate Reader DAISY 2.x, DAISY NISO, NIMAS, MP3 WAV, ogg Vorbis, unprotected WMA, TXT, RTF, HTML, and XML Onyx International Boox 60.5 GB 800 x scale BMP, DJVU, epub, HTML, JPEG, MOBL, PDF, PNG, TXT, MP oz $299 Varies 11 oz $299 Pocketbook Pro 902 Up to 32 GB with card 1200 x scale epub DRM, PDF DRM, EPUB, PDF, HTML, DJVU, RTF, TXT, PRC, CHM, DOC, TCR, FB2, and FB2.ZIP 2 hrs./day $279 Sony PRS-T1 (may not be most current model) and others Up to 32 GB 600 x scale DRM Text : epub (OPS v2.0,.epub file extension, Adobe DRM protected), PDF (PDF v1.6 or before,.pdf file extension, Adobe DRM protected) Image : JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP Unsecured Audio: MP3 (n encrypted), AAC Unsecured Text : epub, PDF, TXT 1 month 5.9 oz $130 Other Comparison charts * Kindle products cannot open/read Digital Rights Management (DRM) protected materials including electronic textbooks. Extra tes on ipad: With the ibooks app (available as a free download), you can download, organize, and read ebooks on your ipad. ibooks is fully compatible with VoiceOver so you can have books read aloud in any of 33 languages. Read in either portrait or landscape orientation. Choose larger font sizes or different fonts. It also works with white-onblack text setting. To add new books, visit the ibookstore directly from your ipad and use VoiceOver to browse the store.

5 GB 800 x 600 16 scale BMP, DJVU, epub, HTML, JPEG, MOBL, PDF, PNG, TXT, MP3 10.

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